What are you working on? #02

What are you working on? #02

Alrighttt, how are we doing?

First off, please drop what you're working on this week. 😂

This is the continuation of the series I started last week, where I’m basically documenting some of the things I’m building, learning, figuring out and, occasionally, just thinking about.

So, what have I been working on?

Last week, we were finally able to launch the first version of our credit application internally. This means users within the organization can now use the application and perform actual operations, so we’re moving into more of a user testing phase.

I also had to jump on some pre-launch fixes, and honestly, it was a good feeling.

Launching comes with its own problems, of course, but seeing that announcement mail go out during the week after months of work and iteration was really satisfying. There’s something different about seeing people actually get access to something you've spent months building.

On the backend side, I made some good progress on my e-commerce project too.

I moved from working on the auth flow to users being able to add, update and remove items from their cart. This has been helping me understand the NestJS ecosystem better, especially concepts like dependency injection and the relationship between modules, controllers and services.

This week, I’m moving over to the checkout and inventory side of the project. The goal is to give customers a way to actually pay for their furniture and to start building out inventory management for admin users.

In my software engineering group, a couple of teammates and I are also working on a system design problem for a ticket management system.

That one has been particularly mind-stretching.

It’s one thing to talk about system design in theory, but when you actually have to sit down with people and brainstorm how a system should work, you start seeing how many problems you can create for yourself if you don't think things through properly.

Sometimes, just go through the stress now and save yourself some sleep later. 😂

I’ll also be reading more of Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup this week. It was recommended to me recently, and I haven’t gotten far enough into it to start pretending I have some profound insight from the book yet. 😂 But I’m hoping to cover some good ground this week.

Outside of work and engineering, I spent some time with friends and family over the weekend and really enjoyed it.

I’m also looking forward to the public holiday this week.

Is it me or does the night before a public holiday slap harder than the actual public holiday itself? 😂

There are a couple of other things I’m trying to be more intentional about.

One is using AI more to solve problems in my day-to-day life. I want to get better at seeing a bottleneck and thinking, “Can I build or iterate something with AI to solve this?” It feels like a return to my first love with tech: seeing a problem and trying to build something around it.

I’m also trying to stop running my community responsibilities on vibes. I need to actually put a schedule around the things I’m responsible for instead of leaving them to my mood.

So yeah, that's what I'm working on this week.

A bit of shipping, a bit of backend, a bit of system design, a bit of reading, a bit of figuring out life, and hopefully a bit of rest too.

What are you working on?
Drop it in the comments. I’d genuinely love to hear what you're building, learning, figuring out, or just getting through this week.